I had t-mobile several years ago, before merger. Got it as some have mentioned for the foreign coverage. Was told by salesperson they had coverage in southcentral Iowa, (I got it at the DM store). Anyway, each month my service would stop doing outgoing calls about half way through the month at home, yet would work when I went overseas or to the DM and Ames area. Kid that was going to ISU had no problem. Contacted many techs and had an ongoing service complaint reference number for six months. Finally talked to a tech guy out in Washington state that told me the truth, they had a policy that limited "roaming" in the small print of my plan, and when I was at home, my phone was "roaming", thus I could only use it for half the billing period at home, while I was fine in areas I was on T-Mobile towers. I was ********** that it took them that long to tell me my problem, and they lied to me when originally switching to their service. Never use them again unless that tech, who wasn't authorized to tell me, did so; becomes CEO.